Veronika Cernadas Loret

Comms @carnegiecouncil | optimistic realist | equestrian | (art) history & music | #tech4good & information integrity | will gladly talk to strangers

[Veronika Cernadas Loret @vmcernadas]

La terre nous en apprend plus long sur nous que tous les livres. Parce qu'elle nous résiste. L'homme se découvre quand il se mesure avec l'obstacle.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

[Veronika Cernadas Loret @vmcernadas]

Must read: https://t.co/afW71Xg4GR

[Jean Quatremer @quatremer]

Démontage des fake news de @NickKristof du @nytimes (le viol par des chiens restera un grand moment de la faillite collective du journalisme du XXIe siècle)
https://t.co/QAqT1roWna

[Veronika Cernadas Loret @vmcernadas]

@WhitStillman @ScholarsInk @Variety Marvellous news!

[Veronika Cernadas Loret @vmcernadas]

👀 Tech governance and AI safeguarding needs to become a global priority. In the same way that we regulate things like cars, aeroplanes, and pharmaceuticals, we need to take seriously the risks posed by unfettered tech. https://t.co/tyy0n0PGvk

[Dario Amodei @DarioAmodei]

I’m proud that so many of the world’s leading companies have joined us for Project Glasswing to confront the cyber threat posed by increasingly capable AI systems head-on.

https://t.co/pn3HSVsThP

[Financial Times @FT]

Anthropic chief Dario Amodei: ‘I don’t want AI turned on our own people’ https://t.co/uo8kkJGhne

[Veronika Cernadas Loret @vmcernadas]

@WhitStillman Hopefully the residents aren’t too shaken

[El Club del Arte 🎨📷📚🖼🕍🎼 @Arteymas_]

Esta pieza es como una combinación entre un autómata fabricado por un relojero suizo y una lujosa pieza de joyería Fabergé

[Veronika Cernadas Loret @vmcernadas]

@NinaAntonia13 You aren’t wrong. With everything going on, it feels like a distraction or sideshow.

[🎶𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 ✨ @Old_But_Gold50s]

What did ancient Persia sound like around 1400 BC? 🎶 Hear it here! 🔊

Sarah Parsaei performs on the Arjan harp — a historic instrument with roots going back nearly 3,400 years — in Tehran, Iran.

[Veronika Cernadas Loret @vmcernadas]

@ParisMatch Le respect de l’autonomie ne suffit pas ici. En refusant de suspendre, la Cour a laissé la procédure se poursuivre malgré des doutes sérieux. Cela pose un précédent préoccupant.

[ijbol adjani @onbeinganangel]

loved her work but this is really disappointing. i hope she can clear this up

[Veronika Cernadas Loret @vmcernadas]

Meta & Google generate $400bn+ in revenue. A $6m verdict barely registers. But 2,000+ similar cases could upend things. This case shifts the legal argument from content to design, putting users at the center. Europe has been making this argument for years.https://t.co/wfBGkjqOVx

[Veronika Cernadas Loret @vmcernadas]

@nonregemesse That is beautiful. Some of the epitaphs for their dogs are also quite moving.

[John Spencer @SpencerGuard]

“Everything in war is very simple, but the simplest thing is difficult.” - Carl von Clausewitz

Be mindful of “analysts” or media that oversimplify strategy, war,’warfare while not recognizing the uncertainty, fog and friction, complexity of geopolitics, and all the information no one knows because it is classified.

[Veronika Cernadas Loret @vmcernadas]

Middle East [and others]: Using AI to stop dissent before it even starts...https://t.co/fx8Hf6IAy8

[Capital Weather @capitalweather]

What a fantastic picture of the Tidal Basin and the Jefferson Memorial -- reflective of this uncommon stretch of frigid, icy weather.

Thanks to @hocofoto (Seth Hoffman) for sharing this amazing capture with us on Instagram.

[Nilofar Ayoubi 🇦🇫 @NilofarAyoubi]

Today the Taliban has issued a "charter of principles" which has formally eliminated for women who face violence at home (abuse) the ability to legally separate themselves or get divorced. This is not legal reform - it is the formal establishment of the requirement for a woman to endure violence.
the way the charter is structured shows the overall approach to law taken by the Taliban. The brief legal provisions cited within the charter include a plethora of jurisprudential citations as if authority must be referenced rather than claimed. Legal systems develop law based upon obligation - the law does not reference or cite prior authorities - justice is not provided through footnotes.
the reliance upon jurisprudential citations indicates an awareness by the Taliban of the weakness of its own legitimacy. The inclusion of religious citations within legislative enactments by the Taliban attempts to convert political power into unassailable doctrine and protect the Taliban's laws from legal challenges by presenting dissent as heresy rather than as a valid legal critique.
the use of only arabic citations also shows the purpose of this endeavor. A legal system that does not communicate with the people in the language of its people, does not seek consent, it seeks submission. What is being developed here is not a legal system - it is a vehicle of domination cloaked in the guise of jurisprudence.